I've been giving RA another try, turning off the percentages removed my anxiety about it.
Would you suggest improved auto/snap shots?
Im playing brutal and am not trying to make it too easy on myself. IDK which is more like normal.
And I believe you said people use Ufo Extender Accuracy? thats to make the game harder right?
Is that because you turn yourself into aimbot with RA on without extender accuracy enabled to nerf range, and make game too easy?
Any accuracy option works both for you and enemy, to me difficulty doesn’t change much - only the pace of finishing missions - either winning or losing them.
UFO Extender was a tool, which modified original dos game “on the fly”. It has an option like “range-based accuracy” or something like that.
The reason was - choice what type of shot to use was trivial most of the time, and that type was “auto” most of the time )) the only reason to use aimed shots in “before Extender” era was small clip size. Typical scenario was:
Aimed shot - 90% accuracy, auto 3x45% accuracy, and TU cost allowed to use auto twice. 6x45% is much better than 90%, both in hit chances and x6 damage output.
Extender accuracy changed that, by making different shot types useful in different scenarios, and player should make decisions based on distance, not only on hit chances, TU and damage output. More choices - more “tactical” the game feels.
“Improved auto/snap” is a workaround, meant to imitate how hit chances increase in close range in vanilla. Better to keep turned on. As a said earlier, now I have a tool to simulate real vanilla hit chances, and could replicate it in RA with a good enough precision, instead of using arbitrary formula for that. After that, “improved snap/auto” option will be dropped from the game.
